2013年2月19日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World News


Syria "Scud-type" missile said to kill 20 in Aleppo

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 10:05 AM PST

Excavator is used to search for survivors after a Syrian army rocket attack on the rebel-held Jabal Badro district in the city of AleppoAMMAN (Reuters) - A Syrian missile killed at least 20 people in a rebel-held district of Aleppo on Tuesday, opposition activists said, as the army turns to longer-range weapons after losing bases in the country's second-largest city. The use of what opposition activists said was a large missile of the same type as Russian-made Scuds against an Aleppo residential district came after rebels overran army bases over the past two months from which troops had fired artillery. ...


Tunisian PM quits after failing to form new government

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 02:11 PM PST

Tunisia's Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali arrives to address a news conference in TunisTUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali resigned on Tuesday after failing to replace a government pulled apart by acrimony between his Islamist allies and their secular opponents. Jebali had threatened to quit if his plan for a non-partisan cabinet of technocrats to lead the north African country into early elections foundered. In the end it was his own party, Ennahda, that rejected the proposal, prolonging the political stand-off that has cast a shadow over Tunisia's fledgling democracy and deepened an economic crisis. ...


French soldier killed in Mali, 20 rebels dead

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 12:24 PM PST

French soldiers drive an armoured vehicle outside HomboriPARIS/DAKAR (Reuters) - A French soldier and more than 20 Islamist rebels were killed during what appeared to be the first clashes in the Adrar des Ifoghas mountain range where militants have taken refuge in northern Mali, French officials said on Tuesday. Speaking on a visit to Athens, French President Francois Hollande said serious fighting had broken out and was continuing in the remote area that straddles the Mali-Algeria border, resulting in several casualties among the rebels and one French legionnaire. ...


Italy politicians make final drive for votes before poll

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 12:50 PM PST

People gather in Duomo Square as Five-Star Movement activist and comedian Grillo speaks during a rally in MilanROME (Reuters) - Italy's politicians on Tuesday stepped up their campaigns in the last few days before next weekend's election with the outcome deeply uncertain and up to a third of voters still up for grabs. Opinion polls on party standings are banned in the last two weeks before the February 24-25 poll but one of Italy's leading pollsters, Renato Mannheimer, said 27.7 percent of Italians were still undecided or could abstain. This makes the final few days of campaigning crucial for an election which has the potential to again destabilize the euro zone. ...


Militants kidnap French family in north Cameroon

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 11:41 AM PST

France's President Hollande leaves after delivering a speech to celebrate Chinese New Year at the Elysee Palace in ParisYAOUNDE/DAKAR (Reuters) - Islamist militants from neighboring Nigeria abducted a French family of seven, including four children, in northern Cameroon on Tuesday, French President Francois Hollande said. The risk of attacks on French nationals and interests in Africa has risen since France sent forces into Mali last month to help oust Islamist rebels occupying the country's north. "They (French family) have been taken by a terrorist group that we know and that is in Nigeria," Hollande told reporters during a visit to Greece. ...


Israel's Netanyahu makes first move for new government

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 11:59 AM PST

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni during their joint statement at the Knesset in JerusalemJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took a first step in forming a new government on Tuesday, announcing a coalition deal with former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and naming her to handle efforts to renew stalled diplomacy with the Palestinians. Netanyahu's choice of Livni, a moderate voice for a government led by his right-wing Likud party, seemed a positive signal ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit next month on a push to resume peace talks deadlocked since 2010. ...


Cyprus socialists sit on fence in runoff vote

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 12:43 PM PST

Cyprus presidential candidate Nicos Anastasiades of the right wing Democratic Rally party and his grandsons cast a ballot at a polling station in LimassolNICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus's socialist party sat on the fence on Tuesday for upcoming elections closely watched by investors as the island teeters on the brink of default, saying it could not back either candidate in a presidential runoff scheduled for February 24. Sunday's vote pits Nicos Anastasiades, a conservative in favor of a swift bailout deal with international lenders, against Communist-backed Stavros Malas, who supports a bailout but with fewer austerity measures. ...


Guinea police clash with youths as strike begins

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 11:15 AM PST

Opposition supporters protest to demand a free and fair parliamentary election, on the streets of the capital ConakryCONAKRY (Reuters) - Security forces clashed with youths throwing stones in Guinea's capital on Tuesday as opponents of President Alpha Conde began a nationwide strike to demand a corruption-free election. The strike began a day after street protests by opposition groups who say preparations have been flawed for the May 12 parliamentary vote, the first in a decade and a test of Conde's democratic credentials after the West African state emerged from two years of violent military rule. ...


Pressure mounts on Israel over Palestinian prisoner fast

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 12:09 PM PST

Palestinians hold placards depicting prisoner Samer al-Issawi during a protest in RamallahRAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails declared a one-day fast on Tuesday in solidarity with four inmates whose hunger strike has fuelled anti-Israel protests in the occupied West Bank. Samer al-Issawi, one of the four Palestinians who have been on hunger strike, has been refusing food, intermittently, for more than 200 days. His lawyer says his health has deteriorated. Gaunt and using a wheelchair, Issawi appeared on Tuesday before a Jerusalem civil court, which deferred releasing him for at least another month. ...


Bulgaria PM pledges power price cut to stop protests

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 11:32 AM PST

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov speaks during a news conference in SofiaSOFIA (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boiko Borisov sought to calm protests on Tuesday by promising to slash electricity prices and punish foreign-owned power companies, setting Bulgaria on a collision course with EU partner the Czech Republic. A day after sacking his finance minister, Borisov said the distribution license of central Europe's largest listed company, Czech-based CEZ will be revoked, and other firms fined after the latest round of increasingly violent protests. ...


Pistorius: Lover caught in tragedy or killer?

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 02:53 PM PST

Olympian Oscar Pistorius, foreground, stands following his bail hearing, as his brother Carl, left, and father Henke, second from left, look on in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. Pistorius fired into the door of a small bathroom where his girlfriend was cowering after a shouting match on Valentine's Day, hitting her three times, a South African prosecutor said Tuesday as he charged the sports icon with premeditated murder. The magistrate ruled that Pistorius faces the harshest bail requirements available in South African law. (AP Photo)PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius portrayed himself as a lover caught in tragedy, wielding a pistol and frightened as he stood only on his stumps, then killed his girlfriend after mistaking her for an intruder on Valentine's Day.


US ready to strike back against China cyberattacks

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 04:29 PM PST

The building housing WASHINGTON (AP) — As public evidence mounts that the Chinese military is responsible for stealing massive amounts of U.S. government data and corporate trade secrets, the Obama administration is eyeing fines and other trade actions it may take against Beijing or any other country guilty of cyberespionage.


Chavez back in Venezuela, stirs succession talk

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 04:23 PM PST

A supporter of Venezuela' s President Hugo Chavez holds up a sign that reads in Spanish "Love with love my president" as she attends a celebration marking his return to his country at Bolivar square in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Feb. 18, 2013. Chavez returned to Venezuela early Monday after more than two months of treatment in Cuba following cancer surgery, his government said, triggering street celebrations by supporters who welcomed him home while he remained out of sight at Caracas' military hospital. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Hugo Chavez's sudden return to Venezuela after more than two months of cancer treatments in Cuba has fanned speculation that the president could be preparing to relinquish power and make way for a successor and a new election.


$50 million in diamonds stolen at Brussels airport

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 12:59 PM PST

A gate is locked by a chain near to where men made a whole in a fence next to the tarmac at Brussels international airport, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. Police on Tuesday are looking for eight men who made a hole in a security fence of Brussels' international airport, drove onto the tarmac and robbed tens of millions of dollars worth of diamonds from the hold of a Swiss-bound plane. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)BRUSSELS (AP) — When the armored car set off for the Brussels airport carrying $50 million worth of precious stones from Antwerp's diamond district, eight gunmen knew all about it.


In info age, Belgian diamond heist is a throwback

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 01:00 PM PST

Baggage carts make their way past a Helvetic Airways aircraft from which about $50 million worth of diamonds were stolen on the tarmac of Brussels international airport Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. Eight armed and masked men made a hole in a security fence at the airport, drove onto the tarmac and snatched the diamonds from the hold of the Swiss-bound plane without firing a shot, authorities said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)LONDON (AP) — At a time when many robberies take place at the click of a mouse, a group of jewel thieves has shown there's still a potential payoff for old-fashioned criminals willing to use disguises, planning and pluck to nab their loot.


US, Iran find common ground: Olympic wrestling

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 12:33 PM PST

U.S. freestyle wrestling team members arrive at the Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran, Iran, early Tuesday morning, Feb. 19, 2013, to attend World Cup tournament. USA Wrestling has formalized plans for a committee charged with restoring Olympic wrestling. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The caretakers of the Olympics may have inadvertently accomplished what has eluded diplomats: Galvanizing Iran and the U.S. on a common goal.


UN: Drones killed more Afghan civilians in 2012

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 11:59 AM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 6, 2012 file photo, Afghan villagers gather near a house destroyed in an apparent NATO raid in Logar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan. The number of U.S. drone strikes in Afghanistan jumped 72 percent in 2012, killing at least 16 civilians in a sharp increase from the previous year, the U.N. said Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 in a sign of the changing mission as international forces prepare to withdraw combat forces in less than two years.(AP Photo/Ihsanullah Majroh, File)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The number of U.S. drone strikes in Afghanistan rose sharply last year compared with 2011, the United Nations said Tuesday. The increase was a sign that unmanned aircraft are taking a greater role as Americans try to streamline the fight against insurgents while preparing to withdraw combat forces in less than two years.


Sunni protesters dig in as tensions flare in Iraq

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 12:04 PM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 file photo, protesters chant slogans against Iraq's Shiite-led government as they wave national flags during a demonstration in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. The Sunni tribesmen camped out on the edge of this one-time Iraqi insurgent stronghold are digging in and growing more organized, vowing to keep up their protests against a Shiite-led government they feel has left them behind. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)RAMADI, Iraq (AP) — Sunni protesters are camped out in dozens of tents festooned with tribal banners on the edge of this one-time Iraqi insurgent stronghold. They are digging in and growing more organized, vowing to keep up their demonstrations against a Shiite-led government they feel has left them behind.


Tunisia PM resigns after cabinet initiative fails

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 01:23 PM PST

Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, center, arrives for meeting with political parties in an effort to end a crisis exacerbated by a political assassination two weeks ago, outside Tunis, Monday, Feb. 18, 2013. Jebali's initiative, while supported by the opposition, puts him on a collision course with the moderate Islamist Ennahda Party, which dominates the government and insists on sticking with a cabinet of political figures. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia's prime minister announced his resignation Tuesday following a failed effort to form a technocratic government to see the country out of its political crisis.


Pistorius' girlfriend cremated in private ceremony

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 11:56 AM PST

June Steenkamp, third left, the mother of Reeva Steenkamp, greets people after she and others attend her funeral, in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is charged with the premeditated murder of Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day. The defense lawyer says it was an accidental shooting. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Reeva Steenkamp's coffin was draped in a white cloth and carried by six pallbearers at a private funeral Tuesday, just a few hours before Oscar Pistorius said in a court affidavit that he mistakenly killed his girlfriend by shooting her through a bathroom door.


Forget feathers and beads: At Basel's carnival Fasnacht, it's all about politics

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 01:54 PM PST

New Orleans, Rio de Janeiro, Venice: All play host to the annual glittering, colorful, and wild extravaganza known as Carnival. But in Basel, Switzerland, the world's only Protestant masque, celebrations take on a new twist – they get downright political.

Pakistan announces operation after bombing, but is it just for show?

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 01:29 PM PST

In an apparent effort to end three days of country-wide protests, the Pakistani government ordered an operation today against the perpetrators of a bomb blast Saturday that killed at least 89 people in Quetta.

$50 million heist challenges Belgian diamond industry, Antwerp most to lose

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 12:45 PM PST

Only "a few minutes": That is all the time that thieves needed to steal an estimated $50 million worth of diamonds from Brussels Airport in Belgium.

What's next for Chávez and Venezuela?

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 12:36 PM PST

Fireworks and tweets reverberated through Caracas early yesterday morning, alerting Venezuelans that their president had unexpectedly returned home after spending two months convalescing in a Havana hospital.

Egypt's political elites and their estrangement from the poor

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 09:28 AM PST

Egypt's political elite continue to fail their people. They are failing to empathize, they are failing to speak to the public that makes them feel they're being listened to, and they're failing to craft approaches to turn around a dangerously listing economy.

Going green: Forget the McNugget eaters, target McDonald's itself

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 09:04 AM PST

In the 1990s, getting people to say they cared about disappearing rain forests and the homeless orangutans and tigers they were leaving behind wasn't that hard for activist groups like Greenpeace.

Adopted toddler's alleged death-by-abuse in Texas inflames Russia

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 08:44 AM PST

The alleged death-by-abuse of a 3-year old adopted Russian boy in Texas has triggered a fresh uproar in Russia, which recently passed a law banning all US adoptions amid claims that Russian children who go to the US are not adequately protected by the law and may be singled out for special mistreatment.

Stunning reversal? Why 'big paper' just went green in Indonesia.

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 08:34 AM PST

It's all around you, all the time. Tidily rolled up next to the toilet when you wake up in the morning, handed to you at the corner cafe with your morning coffee, all over your desk at work, and surrounding much of the food you buy at the grocery store before heading home.

Has the door shut on a diplomatic solution to Syria's conflict?

Posted: 19 Feb 2013 06:01 AM PST

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